Jodi Lynn Picoilt is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
She studied writing at __Princeton University__, and graduated in 1987. She published two short stories in __Seventeen__ magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing __textbooks__ to teaching eighth-grade English. She earned a master's degree in education from __Harvard University__.
__Nineteen Minutes__, Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, has become her first book to debut at No. 1 on the //__New York Times Best__// __Seller list__. Her book __Change of Heart__ was published on March 4, 2008, and became Picoult's second novel to debut at No. 1 on the NYT Best Seller list.
List of Novels she has published:
Songs of The Humpback Whale
Harvesting The Heart
Picture Perfect
Mercy
The Pact
Keeping Faith
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
Perfect Match
Second Glance
My Sister's Keeper
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle
Nineteen Minutes
Change of Heart
Handle With Care
House Rules
Sing You Home
The Stroyteller
Between the Lines (Written with her daughter, Sammy)
The books that I have read are The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Handle With Care, House Rules and Between The Lines. I love her books as there is always a lot of suspense at the end of each chapter. Also, there would be many plot twists in her stories, which would leave you mindblown after you have finish reading her books. However, because she likes to use a back and forth flashback format, sometimes it gets a little bit confusing when I'm reading her books.
Handle With Care was the book that I had read. This book is about is about the life of a girl and her family. Willow O'Kefee , suffers from Type III osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disease also known as brittle bone syndrome. To her parents, Sean and Charlotte O'Keefe, it also meant sleepless nights, mounting bills, and the pitying stares of "luckier" parents.
A disastrous vacation to Disney World resulted in Willow suffering severe breaks to both of her femurs. Sean and Charlotte visited a lawyer to inquire about a lawsuit against the park and hospital after they thought that her femurs were broken due to child abuse. The lawyer mentions a different possibility: a wrongful birth lawsuit against the gynaecologist that treated Charlotte during her pregnancy, meaning that if they had known earlier that Willpow had OI, they could have aborted the fetus. But, the gynaecologist they would be suing, is Charlotte's best friend, Piper Reece. Suing her best friend of wrongful birth would also mean, they wished Willow had never been born.
*Spoiler*
In the end, they managed to win the lawsuit and got a check of $8million, which caused Piper to lose her job. Also, one day, when Willow was outside, she accidentally fell into a pond and drowned.
I really liked this book as it seemed like a typical happy ending at first, but however, it ended in Willow dying, not so much from her disease, but from drowning. There were many other plot twists in the book, but the final plot twist was what I had really liked about this book.
Another one of her books I like would be House Rules. It is about a boy, Jacob Hunt, with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism, being accused of the murder of Jess Ogilvy, Jacob's social counselor.
Jacob lives with his brother, Theo Hunt and Emma Hunt. Theo hates Jacob as he realises that he had to take care of Jacob on his own one day. He has a habit of breaking into stranger's houses and stealing their things.
Jacob is obsessed with forensic analysis. He would often set up his own crime scenes , which he would then ask his mother to solve.
When Jess Ogilvy is killed, Jacob becomes a suspect and is arrested. He admits to having tampered with the evidence found at the crime scene. He admits to cleaning her, dressing her and placing her outside, then cleaning the original scene up and creating a new one that will lead investigators in a different direction.
*Spoiler*
Jacob cleared the crime scene up as he realised that the Jess's death was the fault of Theo. As Theo has a habit of entering stranger's home, he broke into Jess's home by chance. He had accidentally seen her in the shower, then see her slip and fall. Theo was scared so he ran away. This means that Jess's death was only an accident.
Jodi Lynn Picoilt is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
She studied writing at __Princeton University__, and graduated in 1987. She published two short stories in __Seventeen__ magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing __textbooks__ to teaching eighth-grade English. She earned a master's degree in education from __Harvard University__.
__Nineteen Minutes__, Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, has become her first book to debut at No. 1 on the //__New York Times Best__// __Seller list__. Her book __Change of Heart__ was published on March 4, 2008, and became Picoult's second novel to debut at No. 1 on the NYT Best Seller list.
List of Novels she has published:
The books that I have read are The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Handle With Care, House Rules and Between The Lines. I love her books as there is always a lot of suspense at the end of each chapter. Also, there would be many plot twists in her stories, which would leave you mindblown after you have finish reading her books. However, because she likes to use a back and forth flashback format, sometimes it gets a little bit confusing when I'm reading her books.
Handle With Care was the book that I had read. This book is about is about the life of a girl and her family. Willow O'Kefee , suffers from Type III osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disease also known as brittle bone syndrome. To her parents, Sean and Charlotte O'Keefe, it also meant sleepless nights, mounting bills, and the pitying stares of "luckier" parents.
A disastrous vacation to Disney World resulted in Willow suffering severe breaks to both of her femurs. Sean and Charlotte visited a lawyer to inquire about a lawsuit against the park and hospital after they thought that her femurs were broken due to child abuse. The lawyer mentions a different possibility: a wrongful birth lawsuit against the gynaecologist that treated Charlotte during her pregnancy, meaning that if they had known earlier that Willpow had OI, they could have aborted the fetus. But, the gynaecologist they would be suing, is Charlotte's best friend, Piper Reece. Suing her best friend of wrongful birth would also mean, they wished Willow had never been born.
*Spoiler*
In the end, they managed to win the lawsuit and got a check of $8million, which caused Piper to lose her job. Also, one day, when Willow was outside, she accidentally fell into a pond and drowned.
I really liked this book as it seemed like a typical happy ending at first, but however, it ended in Willow dying, not so much from her disease, but from drowning. There were many other plot twists in the book, but the final plot twist was what I had really liked about this book.
Another one of her books I like would be House Rules. It is about a boy, Jacob Hunt, with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism, being accused of the murder of Jess Ogilvy, Jacob's social counselor.
Jacob lives with his brother, Theo Hunt and Emma Hunt. Theo hates Jacob as he realises that he had to take care of Jacob on his own one day. He has a habit of breaking into stranger's houses and stealing their things.
Jacob is obsessed with forensic analysis. He would often set up his own crime scenes , which he would then ask his mother to solve.
When Jess Ogilvy is killed, Jacob becomes a suspect and is arrested. He admits to having tampered with the evidence found at the crime scene. He admits to cleaning her, dressing her and placing her outside, then cleaning the original scene up and creating a new one that will lead investigators in a different direction.
*Spoiler*
Jacob cleared the crime scene up as he realised that the Jess's death was the fault of Theo. As Theo has a habit of entering stranger's home, he broke into Jess's home by chance. He had accidentally seen her in the shower, then see her slip and fall. Theo was scared so he ran away. This means that Jess's death was only an accident.